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Originally Posted by Soliak
I'll save you some time and cash for the future - if you ever travel to Europe, do NOT go and watch live sport. Your jimmies gonna get rustled. Australia too. Actually...everywhere in the world outside of Canada.
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We went to a football game in Brazil, and were asked when we bought the tickets which team we were supporting. I said, "I dunno, home team, I guess" since we were just going for the spectacle/experience.
And it was a spectacle. The home fans were all in one section, yelling, singing, passing banners, etc. Then there was a giant fence, and two empty sections of seats with nobody in them except armed guards, and then another giant fence, and then the section of the stadium where the visiting teams fans were.
I would suggest Philly has nothing on that. The concierge at the hotel and the cab driver both strongly suggested we leave early, so we did. Although the thoroughness of the pat down on the way in suggests to me you'd have to be very, very motivated to get a weapon into the stadium.